David Almond Quotes

“Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.”

“Nothing else for it. Knock it down and start again.”

“And spirit jumping in and jumping out but never seen.”

“I thought how you could never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening in their lives.”

“Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.”

“My mother educates me. We believe that schools inhibit the natural curiosity, creativity, and intelligence of children. The mind needs to be opened out into the world, not shuttered down inside a gloomy classroom.”

“We hurried to the door with the red sign: DANGER.”

“And to be quite honest, Mrs. Dando, the last thing Michael needs is to be troubled by petty things like football and school.”

″ ‘Who are you?’ I whispered. He shrugged again. ‘Something,’ he said. ‘Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel.’ He laughed. ‘Something like that.’ ”

“He was filthy and pale and dried out and I thought he was dead. I couldn’t have been more wrong.”